Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction and overview / Hersh C. Waxman, Jon Gray, and Yolanda N. Padrón -- Resilience : emerging social constructions in educational policy, research, and practice / Joel H. Brown -- Promoting educational resilience for students at-risk of failure / Hersh C. Waxman, Jon P. Gray, and Yolanda N. Padrón -- Resilience research and practice : National Resilience Resource Center bridging the gap / Kathy M. Marshall -- A longitudinal look at the literacy development of children prenatally exposed to crack/cocaine / Diane Barone -- Achieving success : an agentic model of resiliency / Ruth Silva and Judy Radigan -- Mathematics learning environment differences between resilient, average, and nonresilient elementary students / Hui-Li Chang -- The student-teacher axis : idiosyncratic credit and cutting the slack / Sue McGinty -- The relations of teacher education students' resiliency, work motivation, and school-level resilience / Jon P. Gray -- Presenting a resilience paradigm for teachers / Sybil Wolin -- Developing resilient learning communities to close the achievement gap / Robert Stephen Topf, Virginia Frazier-Maiwald, and Martin L. Krovetz -- Resilient communities : the interplay between community development and child development through effective school reform / Héctor H. Rivera -- Promoting resiliency in youth, educators, and communities / Doris "Annie" Henry, Mike M. Milstein -- Future directions for educational resiliency research / Hersh C. Waxman, Ann Brown, and Hui-Li Chang.